1.In what way does your product use/develop/challenge forms and convections of real media products ?

Question one
In what way does your product use/develop/challenge forms and convections of real media products ?
For our media product we were asked to create a documentary in the style of a real media product therefore we only used the forms and convections and did not challenge or develop them.
Framing

The framing of our documentary was essential to real documentaries we did not challenge or develop the forms and convections therefore as you can see from the images the framing is very similar, both interviews are filmed with the interviewee facing lightly off camera. The interview helps connect the target audience and the subject of the documentary because the interviewee is talking about hairdressing. However in another interview the interviewee is a doctor, she is filmed with an appropriate background and helps create a more serious effect.

Graphics

Graphics are present in all documentaries they are there to illustrate who is talking on screen. We used a block white background on out name tags this is because during documentary research we saw that there where many documentaries with this technique. We chose to keep it white because it was a colour that would stand out and be a suitable colour to stay consistent. It is important to include a name because the audience do not know who is talking.

Mise en scene

Mise en scene is important in every documentary. The mise en scene illustrates to the viewer everything that’s goin on and helps support what the interview is talking about. For each of our interview we used natural lighting with some overhead lighting from the celling light, each interview was filmed in front of something that related to what the documentary was about. For example the hairdressing interviews where filmed in font of hairdressing products to tie the subject to the interview.

Narrative structure
For our narrative structure we have talked about trichology, trichotillomania, hair loss and hair dressing.

Cutaways

Cutaways are important for the documentary to help it flow, they are key to the transition of two shots. Cutaways can also be used in the editing process to help cover up any jumps where a section of the film has been cut out.

Voice over
Like most documentaries we used the “voice of god” to address the audience. We made a script for the radio advert and voiceover of the documentary by looking at the codes and convections of real media products. We followed all codes and convections of the real products. For our radio advert we used sections from the documentary. Both the voiceovers are linked together with the title.

Use of sound
Throughout our documentary we used non-diegetic sound and diegetic sound, non-diegetic sound i.e. the music and voiceover where placed in the documentary during editing however the interviews where diegetic sound.

Archive footage

In our documentary we included archive footage, We took this footage from youtube. we found this footage was revent to the content of the documenraty, it was placed in the trichologist interview.